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Vanilla.PDF is a modern, high-performance, open-source C++17 SDK designed for creating, editing, signing, and analyzing PDF documents across multiple platforms. It requires no external runtime dependencies, making it lightweight and ideal for embedding into desktop applications, servers, or automation pipelines. The SDK offers full cross-platform support including Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android, with builds available for major compilers and architectures. Vanilla.PDF supports advanced PDF features such as adding CMS (PKCS#7) digital signatures, modifying content streams and metadata, and working with encryption and permissions based on standard PDF security models. It includes tools for parsing PDF internals like cross-reference tables and objects, providing fine-grained document analysis capabilities. The project is unit-tested with continuous integration pipelines, supporting sanitizers for enhanced code quality and stability.
Features
- Full PDF creation, editing, signing, and parsing capabilities in a single C++17 SDK
- Cross-platform support for Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android with broad compiler compatibility
- No external runtime dependencies; statically linkable and lightweight
- Supports CMS (PKCS#7) digital signatures for secure PDF signing
- Advanced editing features including content streams, metadata, page structure, encryption, and permissions
- Detailed PDF parsing for low-level document inspection and analysis
- Unit-tested core with CI pipelines and sanitizer support for reliability
- Command-line tools for batch PDF operations, enabling automation from terminal
